Good news for pangolins – bad news for Chinese knobs
China has said it will remove Guilingji, a traditional medicine containing bits of pangolin, from its official 2025 pharmacopoeia. I don't know what a pharmacopoeia is, but I imagine it's some kind of...
2023 – A good year for rabbits
Right, then. How are you all feeling? Can't wait to take the new year between your teeth and shake it like a terrier shakes a rat, I'll bet. Yeah, me too.
This is going to be the best year in the his...
A buffet called Africa
China, eh? Funny old business. I had one of them Chinese in the back of my car once. Well, he was in the boot, actually. Come to think of it, that wasn't a Chinese at all – it was a spare tyre. Probab...